Advice - Going wireless
 

Hello all,

Currently, I have a (resurrected) PC with two NICs - one connected to cable modem and the other one serving my 10.0.0.x lan. On the lan I have a Windows XP desktop, one laptop (XP) and a FC3 machine.

The (resurrected) PC is a FC2 machine running iptables and serving 2 XP machines and one FC3 machine (as mentioned above).

I am planning to go wireless, and have the mobility of taking my laptop anywhere within the house. I seek advise/suggestions about hardware, setup, configuration and how-to URLs. I apologize if I sound lazy to search over the net, but the more I search and read articles the more I am unable to decide.

I appreciate all your advise, and thank you all.

I assume you have a switch in front of the 3 pc's. so the cheapest way is to buy a wi fi access point and plug it into one of the ports on the switch.

Some specifics
 

My original posting is vague, and hoping that providing some specifics would be helpful.

Machine #1 - FC2, two NICs - eth0 for internet, eth1 for LAN. This machine runs iptables and provides internet connection via a 5-port hub to three more machines; two of them or XP and the third one is a FC3 installation.

All the machines have NICs, and would like to migrate to wireless setup.

Here is what I am thinking:

Step #1:
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Machine #1: eth1 is a NIC - replace with a "Wireless NIC" and do necessary configuration on this machine, such as, compiling necessary modules and configuring kernel and network.

Step #2:
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Totally remove the 5-port hub. It is not needed anymore.

Step #3:
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Replace NICs in Windows machines and FC3 machine with "wireless NICs", and configure the hardware and network (IP and etc).

Where I need your expertise?
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What's wrong with my strategy?
Which NICs are Linux compatible?
Please provide URLs to HOW-TOs.
What are the potential issues and URLs that help solve them?
Did anyone have similar setup and what's their degree of success?


I sincerely appreciate all your help. Thank you.